Best PA School Districts: Delaware County Districts

Just in time for the 2017-2018 school year, Niche.com released its latest rankings for school districts across the country. And we have the ranks broken down to focus just on Pennsylvania districts and the results are stellar for some districts in Delaware County

Five county districts were in the top 25 of Pennsylvania's best school districts.

Let's take a look at what they are.

Ranked No. 2 in the state is the Radnor Township School District, which also was ranked third in the country. The School District of Haverford Township was ranked PA's 15th best district.

Wallingford-Swarthmore School District was ranked 20th, Rose Tree Media School District 23rd, and Garnet Valley School District 25th.

Niche looked at data from the U.S. Department of Education as well as test scores, college data and ratings collected from Niche users when crafting the list. The methodology for each category of ranking varied.

You can see the full methodology online here.

Each factor is given a standardized score, which is then weighted before an overall score is calculated for each school district. Overall scores are again standardized and some districts are disqualified from receiving a final letter grade if there isn’t enough data. School districts are then ranked numerically and assigned grades.

Solon City School District in Solon, Ohio was ranked the country's best, while nearby Tredyffrin/Easttown School District is the state's best and the nation's second best. Lower Merion School District was ranked fourth, and Great Valley School District ninth.

See the full list below:

1. Tredyffrin-Easttown School District, Wayne
2. Radnor Township School District, Wayne
3. North Allegheny School District, Pittsburgh
4. Lower Merion School District, Ardmore
5. Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, Kennett Square
6. Fox Chapel Area School District, Pittsburgh
7. Mt. Lebanon School District, Pittsburgh
8. Upper St. Clair School District, Pittsburgh
9. Great Valley School District, Malvern
10. Colonial School District, Plymouth Meeting
11. North Penn School District, Lansdale
12. Central Bucks School District, Doylestown
13. Wissahickon School District, Ambler
14. Quaker Valley School District, Leetsdale
15. School District of Haverford Township, Havertown
16. State College Area School District, State College
17. Hampton Township School District, Allison Park
18. Council Rock School District, Newtown
19. Lower Moreland Township School District, Huntington Valley
20. Wallingford-Swarthmore School District, Wallingford
21. Parkland School District, Allentown
22. Spring-Ford School District, Royersford
23. Rose Tree Media School District, Media
24. Upper Dublin School District, Maple Glen
25. Garnet Valley School District, Glen Mills

Niche’s data for its K-12 school district rankings comes from various sources, including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center for Education Statistics and the Civil Rights Data Collection.

The rankings also rely on data that is self-reported by Niche users and schools. (Click here to learn more about where Niche’s data comes from.)

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